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JD Vance – Walk-off Grand Slam

Posted on Monday, October 7, 2024
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by AMAC, Robert B. Charles
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So, JD Vance became likable, that whiz kid no one thought they would like, but they do, cannot help it. He is earnest, polite, just a poor kid who made good, but also gracious, smart, and just hit a walk-off grand slam, the best debate since Reagan, maybe ever. Democrats are beside themselves.

Why did the vice presidential debate last week – as we see in polls – prove to be such a barn burner, with more than 43 million watching, many Democrats who came with popcorn to see Walz clock the young JD Vance, and instead walked away musing … since JD cleaned the Walz clock.

Answer: JD Vance is the real thing, a kid who had nothing, was raised by his grandparents, and a struggling, drug-addicted mother, and had three father figures beyond his grandfather before he was a teen. What is more, he started in Appalachia, with no silver spoon, sometimes no spoon. He is real.

But that is not the thing, not really. He is different, agreeable, and principled but a good listener – a real listener – to concerns people have, awed by their trust, determined not to disappoint, someone who has consciously risen above circumstance, and done something with what God gave him.

And what has he done, at the young age of 40?  He has been a US Marine, and a journalist, earned his way through college, graduated summa, Yale law school, law review, and wrote a book about life that so wowed Ron Howard, formerly of Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days, that he made it into a movie.

But that was never the point, not of JD’s life. The point was to use the gifts and give to others what God had given him, so he married, has three young children, ran for the US Senate, won, and began spreading the gospel of goodness, and even there, not just that. He is not a teller, but a doer.

His gospel includes reverence for the American Dream. And who else had that reverence? Who else rose from nothing, believed in the power of God and good to win, spoke it, but acted on it? More than a billion Americans in our storied history, from most of our Founders to Abe Lincoln, inventors like Edison, Morse, Whitney, Bell, the Wrights, Ford, and our medical magic workers, to Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, and many whose names we will never know, who made America.

This is JD’s magic, his draw, and the reason that he won the debate last week, not because he outsmarted, outwitted, out-snapped Walz, or because he out-prepared, out-thought, and out-graced Walz, although he did those last three. It is because people saw themselves, and America, in JD.

Who would you like as a vice president, or for that matter a president, someone who overstates his military service, coaching role, time in China, record as a public servant, who comes off like a sweaty, nervous funeral director, or a guy who admits to being nervous, laughs at himself, honors the efforts of his worthy opponent, feels sorry for him, seems more like a conservative young JFK.

Well, the jury is back, numbers are in, and they should give anyone who loves America, our history, traditions, exceptionalism, freedoms of speech, worship, markets, and everything else some hope.

Turns out, much as the delusional, utopian, seemingly unrepentant, and unlearning media want to get a liberation theologist, unannounced Marxist into power, they cannot staunch a basic truth: People like what JD Vance represents, where he comes from what he has done, and who he is.

As CBS, PBS, Variety, Politico, and the Washington Post strained to call the debate a “draw,” tried to shape questions to credit Walz for decency, pour value into his awkward admissions to lying about his military record, time in China, other things, calling himself a “knucklehead” – it did not work.

Truth is JD’s performance even swayed those sway-able in the media. Behind the scenes, largely unwilling to say so, the media knows JD is the real thing, and Walz a fake. Even a majority of New York Times columnists tipped their hat to Vance’s performance. The public flocked to him.

Bottom line:  This debate did move the needle, and represents a big move up for Trump-Vance. Why? Vance proved likable, honest, and all the best parts of the common man, as well as a believer in the American Dream, America’s civility and goodness, and God.  He has the common touch.

Moreover, Vance’s performance vindicates Trump, not in words or issues, although Vance did that too, but in basic judgment when it comes to people. Trump picked a winner. Now America needs to.

Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, attorney, and naval intelligence officer (USNR). He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018), and is National Spokesman for AMAC.

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Leslie
Leslie
30 days ago

WHY are we not hearing about Walz’ ties to CHINA! This information needs to get out every single day until the Harris campaign realizes they made a mistake and its too late. He can NEVER be allowed to be in a spot to become President!!!

Bernard Paul Giroux
Bernard Paul Giroux
30 days ago

A senior correspondent may have said it best in a conservative radio talk show interview: Vance has presidential timbre. Thank God.

Bacon Nivison
Bacon Nivison
30 days ago

And once again demonstrates the political prejudice we’re up against. Vance crushed the Maoist coward but the rigged search engines make it practically impossible to find any info. It is so critical to vote Republican! Our entire world is being destroyed by demonic rats. Freedom of speech is under attack like never before. We’ve got demonic villains like HilLiary Clinton, John Kerry and others openly promoting censorship and eliminating the First Amendment. Your freedom is under open attack. VOTE and get your friends to vote as well. We are at war and the voters are the soldiers!

kit
kit
30 days ago

future president

TXResister64
TXResister64
30 days ago

Comparing Walz to a nervous funeral director is unfair. Even nervous funeral directors conduct themselves with more aplomb.

Wahine
Wahine
30 days ago

Mr. Charles, J.D. Vance and his wife have two sons and one daughter. Please get the facts right! Your article on Sen. Vance was truthful and admirable. And when you wrote that Sen Vance didn’t outsmart, outwit, or out-snap Walz, Sen. Vance absolutely DID as well as he out-prepared, out-thought, and out-graced Walz. Sen. Vance will make a much-needed and deserving president of the U.S. in 2028????????

Robert Zuccaro
Robert Zuccaro
30 days ago

Liked his rags to riches story but he really impressed me at the debate. Most debates, you win against one person but this one he whipped three opponents plus their leftist news corporation!

uncleferd
uncleferd
30 days ago

It’s a gift to have a VP candidate like Mr. Vance… who is of such genuine character and sensibility, with a personal history of accomplishment, demonstrated compassion, and dedication to both family and constituents.
Needless to say, this compares quite well to the “Democrat” self-promotion, with the boisterous Walz, who misrepresents his own history, while Harris, who does likewise…. also mimicks a fly-by-night fortune teller…. and insincerely tows the “Democrat Party Line” by praising an “objective” of mass sex organ rearrangements that would make Mr. Potato Head lose his breakfast.
The mission of the any candidate for offices of Vice-President and President SHOULD be too full of thoughts around direly-needed, meaningful governance to bear even a mention of “culture”, whether misguided or not. What Mr. Vance has demonstrated, like President Trump, is a CREDIBLE vision of how to implement a VALUABLE form of governance that restores our national security, our economy, and, generally, our national well-being, while also restoring real opportunities for our citizens, to live their lives happily, and care for their families, in the best ways that they can.

Nancy Brown
Nancy Brown
30 days ago

Love JD Vance. True Patriot with excellent leadership skills and a Servant’s heart.

Dan W.
Dan W.
30 days ago

Grand slam….maybe but it’s still only the eighth inning. Let’s hold the champaign until the game is over.

WILLIAM GREGORY
WILLIAM GREGORY
30 days ago

If I had Walz’s background in China, I could never get the security clearance I had when I served in the Army! It would be a big mistake to give this avowed Chi-Comm lover access to U.S. secrets! The last I heard Veeps are given security clearances

Kim
Kim
30 days ago

I hope J.D. Vance’s debate with Walz will convince democrats to leave the party. Dems always say they’ll make your life better but never actually do anything that makes sense.
Vance comes across as being sincere, honest, and humble. For someone so young, his record of accomplishments is impressive. He’s the kind of man we wish our daughters would bring home.

Roger
Roger
30 days ago

I like this man,we need a great person in this country!

mikem
mikem
30 days ago

please vote, it’s our only hope.

Melinda
Melinda
30 days ago

I love JD Vance, for all the qualities mentioned in the article. I think four years as vice president will more than prepare him to lead the country.

WILLIAM GREGORY
WILLIAM GREGORY
30 days ago

Has anyone thought it strange about the many times Walz took young skulls of mush to China. It seems like he was grooming them to becoming young commies, some of the things he has said are suspect. He may even be a serial molester and that would answer why he is so weird.

GMA
GMA
30 days ago

Vance, shave off your beard. It is not professional looking.

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